mince

/mɪns/

verb

(transitive) To make less; make small. / (transitive) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise. / (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.

She decided to mince her words to avoid hurting his feelings.

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意味（1）

(transitive) To make less; make small.

意味（2）

(transitive) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.

意味（3）

(transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.

意味（4）

(transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.

Butchers often use machines to mince meat.

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意味（5）

(archaic, transitive, figuratively) To suppress or weaken the force of

Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.

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意味（6）

To say or utter vaguely, not directly or frankly

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — "I love you."

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意味（7）

(transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.

In some districts of England ll is sounded like w, thus bowd (booud) for BOLD, bw (buu) for BULL, caw (kau) for CALL. But this pronunciation is merely a provincialism, and not to be imitated unless you wish to mince like these blunderers.

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